Looking to plug deficit, Indonesia starts meeting investors on Sukuk

Government officials leave today for a series of meetings with overseas investors to gauge their interest in an offering of Islamic bonds, or sukuk. “We will start today [Friday],’’ said Dahlan Siamat, the Ministry of Finance’s director of Islamic finance. He was responding to a question about when the government would begin road shows to drum up interest in the dollar-denominated Islamic notes.
Speaking separately, a government official who asked not to be identified said that Ministry of Finance officials would “meet investors only in Middle Eastern countries.”………………………………………Full Article: Source